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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Re: RIP SOAP Net

« on: May 29, 2010, 03:16:45 AM »

I unfortunately don't have the means currently to post the episodes. Maybe someday...

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Re: RIP SOAP Net

« on: May 28, 2010, 02:35:29 PM »

I actually have Grayson's first two episodes on OLTL, and they're great. I just want more because I am a greedy cuss, and later on she wore these fab Forties-styled turbans... just love the look of Grayson in a turban!

G.

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Current Talk '23 I / Re: Another New Slideshow

« on: May 27, 2010, 03:40:32 PM »

MB, you are truly a DOLL. thank you thank you thank you! *swoons*

Grayson and Thayer are on fire together in this scene. If only, if only, the rest of the movie had been on this level. I do look forward to the movie being released on disc precisely for this scene and a few other moments, such as the Old House sequence with Julia confronting Barnabas, Grayson and Thayer's kitchen/lab scene, the costume ball etc.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '09 II / Re: "qui estes-vous,polly maggoo?" at the met

« on: May 27, 2010, 02:31:42 PM »

There's a rather dark, improperly framed (squished, actually) upload of the first six minutes or so of this film available now on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8x40g8bPyg&feature=related

You get to see Grayson's entrance--my favorite entrance of hers in all of her films. You can't see it due to the poor quality but when she sits down she is holding a packet of Marlboros in her lap.

Frustratingly, there is a clip from the Japanese DVD which is in flawless quality but none of Grayson's scenes seem to have made it.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Re: RIP SOAP Net

« on: May 27, 2010, 02:27:32 PM »

Golly. This was practically my last hope that Grayson's OLTL episodes would ever see the light of day...

G.

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Current Talk '23 I / Re: Another New Slideshow

« on: May 24, 2010, 03:57:39 PM »

And wow, an even more powerhouse pairing of Julia/Angelique shots today from hoDS and DS respectively.

Standing and Ovating, O most mysterious of Benefactors! You're a gem.

Best, G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Re: Happy Birthday to Heather!

« on: May 23, 2010, 07:59:01 PM »

Happy Birthday Darling! Hope you enjoyed a beautiful day.

hugs, Steve

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Current Talk '23 I / Re: Another New Slideshow

« on: May 22, 2010, 07:43:16 PM »

Today's capture from hoDS is brilliant, and beautifullly counterpoints the capture from the show, with Alexis telling Hoffman that they're engaged in a war of nerves--one of my favorite scenes for the vicious verve with which Grayson bites off the line, "I HATE having to take orders from her!

I love the naked outrage in Julia's eyes when Stokes leaves her room in that scene in hoDS...this is one lady you DON'T want to cross.

Excellent work as always, MB!

G.

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Current Talk '23 I / Re: It's official: Dark Shadows returns as a film with Johnny Depp

« on: May 19, 2010, 10:45:55 PM »

Maybe they can film it using Pixar bobble-heads. That would certainly give an entertaining twist to the 3-D factor. They'll love it in Peoria and think of the action figures!

cheers, G. still repeating his mantra: NoDS restoration out on DVD (with extras)!

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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Re: Blood and Roses (1960) trailer

« on: May 11, 2010, 05:30:31 PM »

Thanks, Darren.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Blood and Roses (1960) trailer

« on: May 10, 2010, 10:53:13 PM »

Fans of the 1795 storyline will catch a glimpse of a familiar image (involving blonde beauty Annette Vadim, a torn, blood-stained dress, and a mirror) in this trailer of Roger Vadim's 1960 classic Blood and Roses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhQWVOuONQs&feature=related

I wonder where this fan got hold of the trailer. I've heard of a laserdisc release from Japan (?) which may be the source. The trailer wasn't on the crappy EP VHS release from Paramount in the early 1990s, and the color on the trailer is much more vivid than the washed-out palette of the print Paramount presented in their US VHS release.

G.

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Current Talk '10 I / Re: DS Mothers

« on: May 10, 2010, 03:50:08 PM »

MB darling, this is FABULOUS! and you know I adore Sara's addition! Jenny rocks!

I think one of my favorite Mother's Day scenes in DS is from 1897 when Laura and Minerva are musing together on the joys of Motherhood. The subtext just makes this absolutely hysterical! In fact I may need to go home tonight and play that episode again.

Julia very quietly mourning over "poor Motherless Eve" (which came from a very obscure poem some well-read fan tracked down) gets an honorable mention.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 I / Castle of Frankenstein cover with Barnabas, early 1970s

« on: May 07, 2010, 10:20:53 PM »

This brings back fond memories for those of us old enough to have been around back when this was "the cerebral fan's alternative" to Famous Monsters:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L5fa2CwoCuY/SrFrhaB2PmI/AAAAAAAAAdE/uGo3ZFl5E34/s1600-h/CoF16.jpg

I think of this painting as "Barnabas and the Leviathan Queen"--perhaps even Carolyn as she would have been after her "transformation"?

If you go back to the gallery of other mag covers for this zine from the Sixties, you'll see that images of Barnabas figured several times over the years in the cover layout.

Enjoy!

G.

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Current Talk '10 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0993

« on: May 07, 2010, 02:57:50 PM »

I did find Paula Laurence as Aunt Hannah growing on me as she got more into the role. Her line readings initially seem a tip of the wiglet to Agnes Moorehead's Endora.

Paula Laurence was a personal friend of Sam and Grayson. I don't know whether that had anything to do with the casting. Sometimes personal friends of cast members wound up on the show because it was the last minute and a role had somehow not been cast. These stories make one wonder just how casting on the series was supposed to be handled.

It seems too as if many of the regular players worked without contracts, which I would have thought would have been against union rules even back then for AFTRA members.

G.

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Current Talk '10 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0993

« on: May 07, 2010, 02:45:59 PM »

Hey Janet,

Alas! Alack! No more Hoffman for at least a month. Collinwood just isn't the same without her vinegary smiles and barely smothered smirks. Talk about a Domestic Goddess!

John Harkins, who played Horace Gladstone, was one of the most chameleon-like character actors I have ever seen. He also appeared as Lieutenant Costa (I think only for two episodes) during the 1967 Laura Collins storyline, Mr. Strak in the Leviathans story, and perhaps his best-loved (?) role among fans, the infamous Garth Blackwood, Master of Dartmoor.

Lieutenant Costa is I think the most like John Harkins must have been in regular life, and if I had a picture of him to show you, you could see how completely he changed his appearance, bearing, and body language for the extremely sleazy role of Gladstone. Love your image of Gladstone at home on the ratty armchair scarfing down the Jello in one of this hideous plastic bowls. Brilliant!

G.